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It was HP Lovecraft it couldnt have been more than a handful of pages back either.
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Zeniel posted:It was HP Lovecraft it couldnt have been more than a handful of pages back either. Well hey now it was in fact five pages ago, you win a prize.
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on today's episode of magistrate judith
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That Quincy ME article linked at the end is also a pretty solid thread candidate https://medium.com/@garius/how-quincy-m-e-changed-medical-history-7c57b629a0b4
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Azhais posted:That Quincy ME article linked at the end is also a pretty solid thread candidate There's a good 99% Invisible episode on this, iirc. One of the funny parts of it is people from that time misremembering the protest that happened on the Quincy ME episode as a real one.
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Anyone got any good Byzantine stories? I wonder how much is propaganda but then it's obvious that the ruling class of a crumbling empire are the most amazingly useless people on earth besides maybe high school counselors.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Anyone got any good Byzantine stories? I do, but they're complicated and tough to follow. I don't 
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Anyone got any good Byzantine stories? I wonder how much is propaganda but then it's obvious that the ruling class of a crumbling empire are the most amazingly useless people on earth besides maybe high school counselors. The Byzantine History podcast is very good.
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Two Nestorian monks traveled to China and smuggled silkworm eggs back to Constantinople in hollow bamboo canes to break the Chinese monopoly on silk production.
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Theodora’s swan skit is pretty weird.
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Been trying to find the proper text of it for a while but my favorite story of that time period is still that merchant who was complaining about how he couldn't buy wine or bread without having to sit through a theological argument.
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Jul 19, 2019 13:49
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Well, this one time me and Alexios were coming back from Trebizond...
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Trabant posted:I do, but they're complicated and tough to follow. 
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Jul 19, 2019 20:37
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the film "Cops" featuring Buster Keaton: goat gland specialist me: what is that wikipedia: "John Romulus Brinkley was an American who fraudulently claimed to be a medical doctor who became known as the "goat-gland doctor" after he achieved national fame, international notoriety and great wealth through the xenotransplantation of goat testicles into humans."
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A satisfactory picture from history: https://twitter.com/Chinchillazllla/status/1153127915669872640
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Samovar posted:A satisfactory picture from history: Schadenfreude
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Anyone got any good Byzantine stories? I wonder how much is propaganda but then it's obvious that the ruling class of a crumbling empire are the most amazingly useless people on earth besides maybe high school counselors. Procopius describing the byzantine empress Theodora: Often, even in the theatre, in the sight of all the people, she removed her costume and stood nude in their midst, except for a girdle about the groin: not that she was abashed at revealing that, too, to the audience, but because there was a law against appearing altogether naked on the stage, without at least this much of a fig-leaf. Covered thus with a ribbon, she would sink down to the stage floor and recline on her back. Slaves to whom the duty was entrusted would then scatter grains of barley from above into the calyx of this passion flower, whence geese, trained for the purpose, would next pick the grains one by one with their bills and eat.
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Samovar posted:A satisfactory picture from history: I wonder if they made them sing Happy Birthday
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Alhazred posted:Procopius describing the byzantine empress Theodora: i feel like this is the equivalent of weird right wing articles about alexandria ocasio-cortez' supposed degeneracies
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InediblePenguin posted:i feel like this is the equivalent of weird right wing articles about alexandria ocasio-cortez' supposed degeneracies Pretty much. And historians did this a lot. One historian wrote about how Claudius' wife would go to brothels and hold contests about how many men she could service. A story from Byzantium that's supposedly true is that Harald Hardråde, leader of the varangaian guard, had a crush on empress Zoe and once asked for one of her pubes.
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Also, isn't there an idea that Secret History written as kind of a hedge in case Justinian was overthrown by conspirators? As "look I secretly hated and loathed them all along so don't kill me too". Of course there's always the option that he was sort of a proto-incel.
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Samovar posted:A satisfactory picture from history: Against my better judgement I checked out the comments and of course there’s a dude standing up for the helpless SS.
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When people stan the Wehrmacht there's a chance that they're just mislead by the still-pervasive clean Wehrmacht myth but when you go to bat for concentration camp guarding SS, well
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Secret History also says Justinian killed a trillion people and his head would detach at night and haunt the palace.
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Secret history is just him venting. He hates The emperor for some reason and the empress because she’s a loving whore who didn’t know her place god drat it He was a weird little dude
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Alhazred posted:Pretty much. And historians did this a lot. One historian wrote about how Claudius' wife would go to brothels and hold contests about how many men she could service. Apparently that is an incredibly ancient warrior tradition that appears in many different cultures, and still showed up as recently as WW2 Or at least that's what someone explained to me when a similar thing appeared in a Sci-Fi novel I read once
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drrockso20 posted:Apparently that is an incredibly ancient warrior tradition that appears in many different cultures, and still showed up as recently as WW2 It originated when Gimli Gloinsson requested the hair of Galadriel Lady of Lorien
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:It originated when Gimli Gloinsson requested the hair of Galadriel Lady of Lorien Apparently that was Tolkien referencing that trope
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He had to change it a bit because elves don't have pubes (that's canon).
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it's my understanding that it's a kind of memorabilia thing from eras before photographs were cheap and common - hair is durable and takes a while to decay - and number of different cultures have converged on the idea of exchanging locks of hair to keep a memento of someone or to affirm a relationship in a way where you can always keep someone close to your person... it would be common for anyone leaving someone for an extended time, not just for soldiers leaving on campaign on a more platonic level, in the west until ~a hundred years ago it wouldn't have been outrageously uncommon for someone's grandparents to leave behind locks of hair to their descendants to remember them when they pass on or for an important figure on their deathbed to divvy up some hairs for display purposes
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drrockso20 posted:Apparently that is an incredibly ancient warrior tradition that appears in many different cultures, and still showed up as recently as WW2 I really doubt that that WW2 soldiers walked around with pubic hairs in their pockets.
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If they did it was Jonesy's pubes from Seventh platoon, he's a real prankster that Jonesy
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Alhazred posted:I really doubt that that WW2 soldiers walked around with pubic hairs in their pockets. that's probably the least grody thing in a WW2 soldiers pocket, my man.
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Alhazred posted:I really doubt that that WW2 soldiers walked around with pubic hairs in their pockets. Where would you keep them?
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stuck between my teeth usually
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Dudes were cleaning the meat off Japanese skulls and sending them home to the folks so they could use them as bookstops and ashtrays. Pubes are pretty tame compared to trophy skulls.
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Pubes for the pube throne!
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FreudianSlippers posted:Dudes were cleaning the meat off Japanese skulls and sending them home to the folks so they could use them as bookstops and ashtrays. i checked the catalogue and it turns out the price of freedom is a whole bunch of war crimes mutilated skulls will get you.. not freedom, but a few cute islands in the pacific 
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I still doubt that carrying pubes around is an ancient warrior tradition.
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